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Wall Street Banks Earned $13 Billion in Profits from Secret Fed Loans Worth $7.7 Trillion
In the lead-up to the financial crisis that crippled the American economy and plunged the country into a recession, the Federal Reserve made trillions in undisclosed loans to struggling …
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What Country Do We Want to Keep?
Presented this 21st day of November 2011 in Washington, DC, by admirers of the example set by former CIA analyst, Sam Adams (who exposed the intentional undercounting of Viet …
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Will Rogers on Occupy Wall Street
My all time favorite Cherokee, Will Rogers, wrote that in 1924. Today, most of the fellows plowing fields in Claremore, Oklahoma, are still Cherokee — but a lot fewer …
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Turkey and the Syrian “Abyss“
When Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey's prime minister in 2003, he seemed to be certain of the new direction his country would take. It would maintain cordial ties with …
“How Could This Happen in America?” Why Police Are Treating Americans Like Military Threats
“How could this happen in America?” “Is this still my country?” In the past few days, those and similarly poignant Twitter posts have appealed to …
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“Not the Time . . . to Follow the Line of Least Resistance”
In a major journal from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), a teacher and scholar laments the current state of implementing the research in language: “A brief …
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This is What Displacement Looks Like
On Monday I made a second attempt to salvage some of what was seized by the police in their raid of Liberty Square last week. Having already wasted an …
The Democratic Promise of Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street protesters, along with union workers, stage a demonstration on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Todd Heisler / …
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Rep. Barney Frank Won’t Seek Re-Election
Washington - Rep. Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman from Massachusetts and a favorite GOP target for crafting legislation to reform Wall Street business practices, is expected to announce …
Washington State Set to Slash Education and Health Care for the Poor
A premeditated crime is about to take place on November 28, 2011. With police across the country obsessively focused on enforcing camping regulations on Occupy activists, dangerous …